Rather than try to reschedule the conference for later in the year (when the situation could still be problematic), or organise a virtual conference, the AES Executive has decided not to hold the annual conference in 2020 and the next one will take place in Warwick University from 24-26 March 2021.

Despite the prominence of platform and internet work in current policy and academic debate, there is a lack of reliable data on the extent of the use of the internet to generate income and on the profiles of workers performing such activities. This type of work is difficult to measure, and it...